TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Brent Nosworthy. Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles. New York: Basic Books (March 2008). 352 pages, notes, bibliography, index, 14 maps. ISBN: 978-1567923247 $27.95 (Hardcover w/DJ). Some very good things can result when an author has extra material left over from a previous book.  Such is the case with […]

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Several Fridays ago, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Stephanie Farra’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears […]

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Several Fridays ago, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Mark Kucinic’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears […]

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Several Fridays ago, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Larry Freiheit’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears […]

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Last Friday, I posted Ian Spurgeon’s winning entry in the Roll Call to Destiny Book Contest.  Contestants had to answer the following two questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? This week, Brendan Hamilton’s entry in the contest is featured.  It appears below.  […]

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It’s been a little while since our last Civil War Odds & Ends, and I’ve seen some pretty interesting Civil War related material on the web lately. The Tipsy Historian shows us the faces of Company I of the 57th Massachusetts, a regiment which saw itself decimated in Grant’s Overland Campaign of 1864. The 57th […]

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I recently held a contest where readers had to answer the following questions: What are the five most important books you have read on the Civil War? Why is each important? Ian Spurgeon was the winner. His contest entry follows. The best contestant entries will be appearing here at TOCWOC over the next few Fridays. […]

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